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Bill Dance is one of America's best-known fishermen and has more than fifty years of on-water experience. Bill Dance's Fishing Wisdom combines his years of experience, knowledge, and wit into 101 tips that are sure to help any freshwater angler catch more and even bigger fish! Bill offers advice that might surprise even the most experienced fisherman, such as the importance of matching your line size to your lure when topwater fishing and how to prevent...
2) Cyclettes
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Some people "live to ride'" while others simply ride to live. In Cyclettes, author and designer Tree Abraham documents a meaningful life only discovered and sustained through a two-wheeled lifestyle--one that speaks to those who find home in wanderlust and merge with a flow of like-minded enthusiasts. Each cycling vignette in this book is a cyclette--a circumvoluting entry point to Abraham's musings on the millennial experience. From bicycle brain...
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"As we began to set foot in the outdoors we didn't expect to learn something beyond where the deer were running or where the ducks were flying. Once we realized what these creatures really wanted, it was the opening of truth for us as hunters."
A long-time hunter and fisherman and senior writer at Wide Open Spaces, Craig Raleigh has spent most of the last forty-five years of his life trying to find that elusive Holy Grail of hunting, that unimagined...
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The Book of Five Rings (五輪書, Go Rin no Sho) is a text on kenjutsu and the martial arts in general, written by the Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi around 1645. Many translations have been made, and it enjoys an audience considerably broader than other martial artists and people across East Asia. For instance, some foreign business leaders find its discussion of conflict and taking the advantage to be relevant to their work in a business context....
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Some of the hardest and most enduring lessons are learned on the field, but they don't have to stay there. In HOW TO SUCCEED IN THE GAME OF LIFE: 34 INTERVIEWS WITH THE WORLD'S GREATEST COACHES, Christian Klemash collects the practical wisdom and uplifting stories from the best teams and their coaches, showing how determination and belief in oneself can guide your life. For two years, Klemash tirelessly tracked down the nation's top coaches from the...
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Trent Shelton is a motivational speaker, former NFL player, and founder of the non-profit RehabTime. Trent reaches millions of followers of all ages each week with his videos and messages about relationships, personal success, life, and faith. Who do you have in your life who's not afraid to tell you the honest-to-God truth? Who do you have who's a real source of wisdom when life gets real? With his trademark combination of raw honesty and practical...
7) Sparky and me: my friendship with Sparky Anderson and the lessons he shared about baseball and life
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"Few sports figures, regardless of their position, have generated as much good will as Sparky Anderson. The legendary manager for the Cincinati Reds and the Detriot Tigers met author Dan Ewald in 1979 and thus was born a lifelong friendship not likely ever to be seen again in baseball. Along the way, Dan never took for granted the front row seat he had to watch one of history's most memorable managers' absolute mastery of baseball's intricacies. But...
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"Eugen Herrigel, a German professor of philosophy in Tokyo, took up the study of archery as a step toward an understanding of Zen Buddhism. This is the account of the six years he spent as a student of one of Japan's great kyudo (archery) masters, and of how he gradually overcame his initial inhibitions and began to feel his way toward new truths and ways of seeing." -- Cover.
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Making Game is a mixed-genre composition in which the author reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of hunting wild game. This engaging essay is informed by the author's significant background of scholarly engagement with the phenomenological tradition in modern philosophy.
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Co-author Swen Nater, one of John Wooden's former basketball players at UCLA, provides insightful first-hand accounts on the many life lessons he learned from Wooden that has applied to his life since becoming a teacher himself. Wooden's principles, conveyed by Nater and co-author Ronald Gallimore in this book, can be studied and applied by teachers, coaches, parents and anyone else who is responsible for, works with, or supervises others. In this...
11) Ethics
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This book raises and answers the following questions:When is it ok to stab someone in the face with a sword?
What is the one thing you find most useful about swordsmanship training outside the salle?
How important is history to you in your practise of swordsmanship?
Can a duel settle a matter of honour?
Can violence be beautiful?
To what extent is the practice of swordsmanship the cultivation of virtue?
Is the study of ethics necessary for martial...
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Immerse yourself in the world of the Samurai with this classic text, translated and interpreted for the modern reader.
Code of the Samurai is the four-hundred-year-old summary of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido—the ancient Japanese "Way of the Warrior." Bushido has played a major role in shaping the behavior of modern Japanese government, corporations, society, and individuals, as well as in shaping modern...
Code of the Samurai is the four-hundred-year-old summary of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido—the ancient Japanese "Way of the Warrior." Bushido has played a major role in shaping the behavior of modern Japanese government, corporations, society, and individuals, as well as in shaping modern...
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¿Qué mecanismo hace que condenemos la corrupción de un político pero aplaudamos la estafa de un futbolista?
Desde su primera publicación este ensayo se convirtió en el centro de los debates más encendidos en Francia y pronto traspasó sus fronteras convirtiendo a sus dos autores en asiduos conferenciantes, articulistas o invitados en una discusión ineludible; como la fuerza y la influencia del fútbol en la sociedad actual ha servido como...
15) Deep Cuts
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Recently divorced and expelled from an end times cult, Cody Ferguson lives a quiet life of blurred monotony until an embarrassing near death experience forces him to face the stranger in his mirror. Visits from his recently deceased father let loose demons of past abuse, adultery, and deceit.
Cody's chance meeting with enigmatic younger woman, Soledad Estrada, and his obsession with her places him on a collision course with betrayed former friends...
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Tras su exitoso primer libro Sócrates en bicicleta, el ciclista y filósofo francés Guillaume Martin vuelve a reflexionar sobre el ciclismo y la sociedad actual en este libro.
"El deporte es reflejo de la sociedad. En su forma moderna amplía las características del mundo que conocemos, el mundo capitalista, el mundo de la red, cuyos defectos permite mostrar. Sitúa al individuo en el centro, pero no reconoce ninguna identidad. La estrella del...
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Justice, courage, loyalty, self-control: the qualities essential to the Samuri warriors of Japan are those to which we all aspire. In this classic work, originally published as Bushido: the soul of Japan, Inazo Nitobe explores the moral code of the Japanese warrior class, from the importance of politeness rituals to the ultimate chilling self-sacrifice: hara-kiri or suicide. Nitobe's engaging text conjures up a world of chivalric principles and brutal...
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TAEKWONDO IS A JOURNEY...
This book, in seven parts, offers you the opportunity to visit the garden that is Taekwondo. Discover what it means to be a steadfast practitioner, understand Taekwondo's honorable past, and prosper in the confidence and purpose that Taekwondo offers to all that participate.
By following Taekwondo's path and developing its indomitable spirit, you-the Taekwondo traveler-will see the 'Do' or the Way. Learn how to cultivate...
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In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing shed new light on questions of altruism, while sporting family dynasties reorient the nature v. nurture debate. Why do sports competitors choke? Why do fans think God...
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